They think and say words like these - "I'm basically a good person, so I'll go to heaven." "OK, so I do some bad things, but I do more good things, I'll go to heaven." "God won't send me to hell just because I don't live by the Bible. Times have changed!" "Only really bad people like child molesters and murderers go to hell."
These are all common rationalizations, but the truth is that they are all